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ORIGINAL: crsutton

1976 TR7. The stylish wedge. Oh so beautiful and fun to drive. But more in need of a priest than a mechanic. Not a good time for British Leyland..... Here is a shot of the car with my girlfriend at the time sitting on it. I came home from sea only to discover that my brother had warped the head and that my girlfriend had dumped me. Sigh, good times...

ORIGINAL: crsutton

1976 TR7. The stylish wedge. Oh so beautiful and fun to drive. But more in need of a priest than a mechanic. Not a good time for British Leyland..... Here is a shot of the car with my girlfriend at the time sitting on it. I came home from sea only to discover that my brother had warped the head and that my girlfriend had dumped me. Sigh, good times...

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Zorch

What's the penalty for hijacking a thread? Intentionally and willingly, with Zero provocation, and with malice aforethought? [X(]

You get Nic'd with an Oscar?

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Zorch

What's the penalty for hijacking a thread? Intentionally and willingly, with Zero provocation, and with malice aforethought? [X(]

You get Nic'd with an Oscar?

Well Frankly, I don't give an Oscar.

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: bomccarthy

My first car - paid $8,500 for it new, in 1982. I sold it 12 years later for $750 and bought a used 1991 Mustang GT.

I can see why I never saw one of these in Canada. Those headlight sockets are just made to accumulate snow and block the lights!
Did it suffer from loose-steering wander like most North American cars of the time? I remember Fords being particularly bad - you had to tack back and forth like a sailboat!

ORIGINAL: dave sindel

ORIGINAL: crsutton

1976 TR7. The stylish wedge. Oh so beautiful and fun to drive. But more in need of a priest than a mechanic. Not a good time for British Leyland..... Here is a shot of the car with my girlfriend at the time sitting on it. I came home from sea only to discover that my brother had warped the head and that my girlfriend had dumped me. Sigh, good times...

Is that Chrysler Cordoba in the background dark green also or dark blue? I had one just like that ( dark green) with the white half vinyl roof and white pinstripes. Was a pretty nice riding and driving car.

ORIGINAL: wdolson

ORIGINAL: sventhebold

My first car. 1969 Chevrolet Impala. Paid 250 bucks for it.

Mine was a 1967 Caprice. Looked like this with the stock wheels:
http://www.2040-cars.com/Chevrolet/Caprice/1967-chevy-caprice-sport-sendan-clean-nice-original-car-supernatural-tv-car-1165249/

They have become classics, $27,000? I think my father paid about $1500 new. I had it less than a year and my father bought a new car and handed down his 1974 Caprice to me. That wasn't as nice a car, it started developing problems when I was in college and I got a 1981 Impala instead. Even though that Impala had 70,000 hard miles as a company car before I bought it, I put another 70,000 miles on it with little trouble. The one time it had a catastrophic failure was when the housing on the water pump cracked while I was waiting at a traffic light. There was a service station on the same corner with no cars being worked on and it was a relatively short walk home. They were able to replace the water pump in a couple of hours from when it happened.

The 74 was also light blue with a white painted roof. It looked dated the day my father bought it new.

Every car I've driven had a GM small block V-8 in it though the new car only has a model of one. [:)]

As for a first aircraft, I don't recall what my first aircraft model was. I was only three. I do remember my first 1/32 model though. I was 5 and I had felt I was building second class models because my father only built 1/32 scale. My sister was building some 1/32 scale aircraft too. One night both my sister and father were working on 1/32 scale Zeros my father had picked up at Pick N Save for $0.98 each and I was pouting. He went out to the garage and came in with a Zero for me too.

It was this boxing of the kit:
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/1028083-revell-h-265-mitsubishi-a6m5-zero-sen

Not terribly accurate, but the fit and finish were pretty good. I built another one when I was in high school that I still have. I didn't need to use much putty on it as almost everything fit very well.

Bill

ORIGINAL: Gregg

First car was a 1954 Buick Roadmaster hand me down from my Father, via my Mother, in 1960 at the ripe old age of 15.
My Dad really liked Buicks, and bought a new one about every three years.
The 54 was a real lead sled, but it was a top of the line Buick, and I drove it through high school.
My first new car was a 1964 Impala, that my father bought my as a going off to college car.
327 V8, Powerglide, PS, PB and AC; could not ask for more as a 18 year old.

My first and only aircraft I ever owned was a 1951 vintage PA-18, Piper Super Cub, that I bought as a basket case in 1969 and totally rebuilt.
Got it back in the air in late 1971, and sold it in 1975 when my first son came along.
Could not afford a wife, a family and a mistress, so N229T (the mistress) had to go :>((

Gregg

ORIGINAL: bomccarthy

A '69 Caprice, in the San Gabriel Valley, and you kept the stock wheels? Didn't you at least install hydraulics? Or get a custom paint job?

ORIGINAL: dave sindel

ORIGINAL: crsutton

1976 TR7. The stylish wedge. Oh so beautiful and fun to drive. But more in need of a priest than a mechanic. Not a good time for British Leyland..... Here is a shot of the car with my girlfriend at the time sitting on it. I came home from sea only to discover that my brother had warped the head and that my girlfriend had dumped me. Sigh, good times...

Is that Chrysler Cordoba in the background dark green also or dark blue? I had one just like that ( dark green) with the white half vinyl roof and white pinstripes. Was a pretty nice riding and driving car.